Author: Freedom Watch

Trump rails against Mueller in Sunday tweetstorm By Eli Watkins CNN July 29, 2018 President Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets on Sunday lashing out at the special counsel investigation led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller. In the tweets, Trump largely resurfaced previous issues he has with the investigation, claiming Mueller personally has conflicts of interest — including a “contentious business relationship” — that should preclude him from running the investigation, accusing Mueller of bringing on too many Democratic investigators, and making a false claim about the origin of the Russia investigation. Continue Reading…..

Vandals paint Nazi symbols on wall at Jewish temple in Indiana By Jay Croft and Deanna Hackney CNN July 29, 2018 Nazi images, including a swastika, were discovered Saturday morning painted on a structure that is part of a Jewish synagogue in Indiana, the temple said. The swastika and two iron crosses were on a brick wall that goes around a dumpster at the Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel, just north of Indianapolis. Continue Reading…..

Brett Kavanaugh won’t tip Supreme Court to the right; Democrats should focus on elections By Joshua Sandman, opinion contributor TheHill July 29, 2018 Brett Kavanaugh, based on his record as an appeals court jurist, will be a conservative Justice of the Supreme Court. However, he will not tip the balance of the court right — It is already to the right. So what will his confirmation mean? The political environment in Washington has been plagued by intra-party struggles, inter-party disputes, conflict between the White House and Congress, and ideological struggles. Gridlock often results. Problems are not addressed. Continue…

By Greg Burt California Family Council July 29, 2018 Censorship of conservative content online by media tech giants has become an increasing problem in recent months. In May, the topic was receiving enough media attention that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy called on Amazon to stop censoring censoring the nation’s leading legal nonprofit focused on protecting religious freedom. Out of millions of organizations, Alliance Defending Freedom was singled out and targeted. Even worse, several of these tech giants admit that rely on the discredited attack dog organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center. Continue Reading…..

Jonah Goldberg: So, that summit did not go well By Jonah Goldberg stltoday.com July 29, 2018 I think I can say, without fear of inviting reasonable correction, that the Helsinki summit did not go swimmingly. And yet, some 66 percent of Republicans told ABC News-Washington Post pollsters that they support President Donald Trump’s objectively disastrous performance. I don’t buy it. Continue Reading…..

N.Y. Times publisher implores Trump to stop calling journalists ‘enemy of the people’ By Michael Walsh Yahoo News July 29, 2018 A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times. Trump said he opined that the press has produced “vast amounts of Fake News” and that this was responsible for his decision to label journalists the “enemy of the people.” Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media &…

Giuliani: Somebody ‘Played Around’ With Cohen Tape By Solange Reyner Newsmax July 29, 2018 Rudy Giuliani said Saturday that somebody “played around” with the tape released by President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Saying that the recording played on CNN appears “doctored” and incomplete, Giuliani told Fox News Channel’s Jeanine Pirro that Cohen “abruptly ended that recording” as soon as Trump said the word “check” during a conversation about paying a Playboy model who alleges she had an affair with Trump over a decade ago. Continue Reading…..

Joint defense with Cohen over, experts hired to analyze Trump-Cohen tape: Giuliani ABC News July 28, 2018 President Trump’s legal team hired multiple experts to review and analyze the recordings of conversations between Cohen and Trump. They’ve specifically looked into why the tape cuts off mid-conversation about a hush payment made to former Playboy model Karen McDougal who alleged an affair with Trump. “We’ve had it analyzed by several experts, not just for audio,” he said. Continue Reading…..

Obama administration approved $200G grant to group with Al Qaeda ties By Alex Pappas Fox News July 28, 2018 The Obama administration approved a $200,000 grant to a group in Sudan with ties to Al Qaeda even though it had been designated a terrorist-financing organization by the U.S. years earlier, a conservative think tank revealed this week. Further, an agency official acknowledged the prior administration allowed taxpayer money to flow to the group even after its designation was discovered. Continue Reading…..

By Maegan Vazquez CNN July 28, 2018 President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, substantially weakened his case against Michael Cohen by going back and forth as to whether Cohen could tell federal prosecutors the truth, said Jay Goldberg, President Donald Trump’s friend and former lawyer. Giuliani called Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, “honorable” and truthful on several occasions before an audio recording of a discussion between Cohen and Trump about buying rights to a Playboy model’s story about an alleged affair Trump took part in became publicized. Continue Reading…..